Catriona
A Classics, Cultural, Adventure book. You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you...
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- Pages: 363 pages
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You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you for it,' said I. 'I will try on my side to be no less honest. I believe these deep duties may lie upon your lordship; I believe you may have laid them on your conscience when you took the oaths of the high office which you hold. But for me, who am just a plain man--or scarce a man yet--the plain duties must suffice. I can think but of two things, of a poor soul in the immediate and unjust danger of a shameful death, and of the cries and tears of his wife that still tingle in my head. I cannot see beyond,...
This was the sequel to "Kidnapped", also known as "Catriona", and even though the main character was still David Balfour and the political landscape remained the same, it was such a different book as to be in a different genre than the first. "Kidnapped" was as much of a coming of age story as anything else, with high adventure, impossible... Catriona is the sequel to the greatly successful Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is in part a continuation of Kidnapped and part history of a famous Jacobite chieftain on trial for murder of the King's Factor. The telling is fascinating, but RLS tries to squeeze two very different stories into one small volume. The logistics... Originally published on my blog here in November 2001.When reading Kidnapped, it seems as though all the loose ends are tied up; but as soon as you move on to the sequel, it becomes clear that a large gap has been left. This is that no move has been made to clear the name of Alan Breck Stewart of the Appin murder, which David Balfour...
